Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?