Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.