The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

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.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

I lost my family, ” he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. “If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

The best part of being on the platform that we are is being able to influence and affect so many people.

I think I would rather want to create something new, but I really did enjoy doing that show. It was a really fun show to do.

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.