There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.