“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I’ve found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

If we speak poorly about that which we do well, people will assume we perform poorly!

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

All my friends tell me I need to pull through. But I can’t for I am lost in the sea of you.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.