If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.