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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

You can only be free if I am free.

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Pity is treason.

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.

It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.