Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.