Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one’s mistakes.
A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
I’ve found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.
Every day is a new life to a wise man.
Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
I wasn’t interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.
Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.