Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

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.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

It's easy to take the time to stop and smell the roses but one must be willing to give of themselves enough to also stop to admire and understand life's weeds. Colleen Dougherty 10/2015

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

It was good to travel to the other side of the world.

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.