Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.