So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.

The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it."

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.