Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.

A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.