Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.

I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It's an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.