“If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.”

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone’s face.

The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don’t lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.

Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.

Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.

You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can’t hold a conversation. No.

They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can’t hold a conversation.

How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?

Some conversations feel like a hug. Some people feel like home.

I miss people I have never met. Conversations I have never had. Streets I’ve never walked. And love I have never made.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president,

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.