Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

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.

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Always avoid the acute angle.

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.