Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair?

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.

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!

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

Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you thatmakes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold on to it with onehand, and use the other to claw your way back home.-Ripple

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you.

Time like money is measured by our needs.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

In America, we do cheat. We have people who cheat in elections.

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.