Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!

Good things come to those who initiate.

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

It's not what you know or who you know, but who knows you.

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

Small talk is the biggest talk we do.

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.

Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it.

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.

Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

Eat lots of fresh vegetables, drink water, exercise often, and meditate daily.

It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.

We're always looking for something.

I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al