If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

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.

We are all born extraordinary! shape your today to cherish your tomorrow

People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

You might be a redneck if your momma calls you over to help, cause she has a flat tire on her house.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.