Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

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.

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.