I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.