Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.
If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.