An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.”

A stumble may prevent a fall

We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string...

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number,...

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Life is 10 percent what you make it&lt;br /&gt;<br /> and 90 percent how you take it.”

My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends...

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten...

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

I love those who can smile in trouble...”

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have,...

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.”

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words

Our life is what our thoughts make it.”