I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious.

Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for... and smile. The world will smile with you.

The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

Enthusiasm: If you don’t FEEL enthusiastic, ACT enthusiastic. Soon, you’ll BE enthusiastic. Double your enthusiasm and you’ll probably double your income.

If you don't believe in what you're selling, neither will your prospect.

Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what’s most important. Then do those things first.

The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue

Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product

It feels wonderful when you fly with hopes and dreams.

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.

I watch her with loving sadness as she dulls her shine to please others. Will this butterfly ever soar? Will she continue to pretend she can’t fly? Her greatest life awaits this decision.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

There's something unsettling about being continually sold something.