Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

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

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Under friends I just understand people which share the same ideas and thoughts which will mean.... Ops my mistake... I was just looking are you following or you like because of the crowd?

We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.