“People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.”

Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

if you want to keep happiness, you have to share it!

Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

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.

The Warrior Kid treats people with respect, doesn’t judge them.

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Motown, Motown, that’s my era. Those are my people.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.

Wouldn’t it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.