When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.