During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.

When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.

A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Dare to share for to Give is to truly Live. -RVM

It’s when you start not just following a dream, but living it that your life seems no less than a heaven.

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.

You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.