Being prepared not only reduces our stress level and keeps us from looking stupid, but it builds the confidence that other people have in us that we are dependable, reliable and can be counted upon.

How can you showcase your unique expertise, valuable experience, and strong education without sounding egotistical?

A quality education prepares you to make a living, make better choices, and have more doors open as you build a solid life.

Take your place among experienced professionals by focusing on ways to learn, grow, and succeed.

By establishing a strategic online presence through your website, social media, keywords, meta tags, and Google AdWords, the world may discover your expertise and "beat a path to your door.

Put in the time. To position yourself as an expert, practice, apply, experiment, volunteer, and work within your area of knowledge to deepen your own understanding as you build real-life experience.

When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people perceive you differently.

Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm.

Your body language continuously communicates for you, whether you are aware of it or not. Are your intended messages being well conveyed?

One of the most compelling things about you is the energy you put forth—whether it is positive, negative, or neutral. And that is only the beginning.

The way you walk, talk, stand, and carry yourself sends messages to others that can attract or repel, encourage or discourage, and impress or depress.

Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.