You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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.

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.