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.

Good things come to those who initiate.

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.

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

The real power in helping somebody to be transformed is not to do something to them but to join with them.

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality