The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

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.

How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.