People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. - Norman Vincent Peale

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today’s news isn’t really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

Your personality means the aspect of yourself which makes you effective in life. It is evident that there are two aspects of effectiveness of individuality. First, how do you affect or stimulate others? This is your stimulation value. Second, how do others affect you? How do you respond to others? That is your response aspect of value. Put these together, your effect upon others and others’ effect upon you, and that is virtually your personality.

You’ve done me the honor of consulting me, a so-called mind and spirit doctor,” I continued, “so I’m going to give you a prescription. Several times every day look in the mirror. Look yourself straight in the eye and say, ‘Listen, you — you are somebody, so start being what you are supposed to be!’ And then stand up to your full height: stand tall, walk tall, think tall, talk tall, and