“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.”

Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.

You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.

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.

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Don’t believe everything your mind tells you.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

He gave me a look at myself I’ve never had before. He saw something in me nobody else ever did. He made me see it too. He made me believe it.