Love is natural and unconditional. Love asks no questions--neither preaching nor demanding; neither comparing nor measuring. Love is--pure and simple--the greatest value. . .

If there is no deep, internalized feeeling of value inside of us, then we have nothing to give to or share with others. We can need them, we can be dependent upon them, we can look for security in them, we can indulge them, flatter them and attempt to purchase them. But we cannot share or give an emotion to anyone else, unless we first possess that emotion inside of us.

Denis Waitley
Seeds of Greatness
pp. 32

It simply makes no difference how good the rheteric is or even how good the intentions are; if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success. Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

Stephen R. Cuvey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
pp. 21

>Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

>Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

>Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep on trying with PMA. (Positive Mental Attitude)

>To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice . . .practice . . . practice.

>Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
pp. 17

We talked with Andrew, a son, and his children earlier today. His birthday, and Anne's, was yesterday. Anne is my sweetheart (wife) and I am grateful for Andrew's wife's Blog entry about her. "I can't talk about my husband without saying something about his mother, too. Andrew's mom is the most Christ-like woman I've ever met. Her countenance radiates love and she spends her days in the service of others. Everything I love about Andrew is a reflection of this great woman. Happy Birthday to you too, mom, we love you!"

Like the spoonful of sugar in Mary Poppins, I believe that a bit of laughter at the right moment helps the medicine go down. After a fallen tree has landed on your car, putting a sign on it that reads COMPACT CAR may not make the car whole again, but it will help you see your misfortune a little differently.

Allen Klein
The Healing Power of Humor
Prologue pp. XXII

Total success is the continuing involvement in the pursuit of a worthy ideal, which is being realized for the benefit of others--rather than at their expense.

Denis Waitley
Seeds of Greatness
pp. 26

A Positive Mental attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindness and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

Napoleon Hill and W. Clemont Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
pp. 13-14

Most of us Connecticut-to-New York City commuters feel that our railroad timetable is a mild form of fiction published for the amusement of the regular riders. Recently, however, one early-morning train did make it to New York on time. Where-upon the man seated in front of me turned to his seatmate and said, "The train's right on schedule this morning."

'Thank goodness!" replied the other man, looking up from his newspaper. "I thought my watch had stopped."

George Schnake (Westport,Conn.)
Laughter, the Best Medicine
pp. 1-2

When Henley wrote the poetic lines, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul," he could have informed us that we are the masters of our fate because we are masters, first, of our attitudes. Our attitudes shape our future. This is a universal law. The poet could have told us with great emphasis that this law works whether the attitudes are destructive or constructive. The law states that we translate into physical reality the thoughts and attitudes which we hold in our minds, no matter what they are. We translate into reality thoughts of poverty just as quickly as we do thoughts of riches. But when our attitude toward ourselves is big, and our attitude towards others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
pp. 7-8

Don't Aim At Success

Don't aim at success--the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be persuaded; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success; you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Victor E. Frankl
Man's Search For meaning
pp.16-17