“An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.””

Take a chance! All life is a chance

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so. Don’t condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

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.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

People don’t know when they are happy. They’re never so unhappy as they think they are.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.