Ann Landers

"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head."

"Accept everything about yourself. This is the first step toward the changes you want to make."

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back."

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph."

"Giving advice is easier than following it."

"A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optimist sees it as half full. A realist just drinks the water."

"Most of the things we worry about never happen anyway."

"Ingratitude is the essence of vileness."

"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."

"The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kind look, a kind word, a kind act."

"If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems."

"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half-shut afterward."

"Silence is consent."

"Money can't buy you love, but it can buy you a jet ski. Ever seen a miserable person on a jet ski?"

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being."

"Being a good listener is one of the best investments you can make in life."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

"We need to teach our children that they are not the center of the universe."

"The measure of your character is what you would do if you knew you would never be caught."

"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude."

"Trouble shared is trouble halved."

"There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

"Knowledge is power, and power corrupts, so study hard and be evil."

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

"The world needs more kindness. Start by being kind to yourself."

"Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes."