“Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.”

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Perform your job better than anyone else can. That’s the best job security I know.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.

It’s still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it’s sometimes hard work living with her.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Notice how you breathe can influence how you feel in any moment.

The action that I’ve started, sometime I’ll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.