You already know the difference between being a gracious person versus a rude one.

The Art of Communication shares insights to help you communicate with a higher awareness and focused intention and meet people on their level to increase clarity and understanding.

Your life is happening in the NOW, yet the present moment is often squandered by your thinking about what has happened in the past or may happen in the future.

Just be Nice. Nice—this little word has a big meaning. Use it generously. Being nice helps people feel emotionally safe, allowing for more authentic, trusting, and happy interactions.

Be Brave. Bravery takes fortitude—put yourself on the line, even if you risk failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid—if being brave were easy, more people would be. Just try it!

Manners Matter. Courteous behavior is the hallmark of healthy relations and human interaction. Manners ensure you will be more respected, admired, and appreciated. Thank you!

Take the Initiative. Be proactive. If you want to rock your relationship results, it is going to take action, effort, initiative, and choosing to get in the game—so, step up, step out, and show up!

Begin to take the initiative when you want to meet someone new. Be the one who steps forward first. Simply say hello and begin a conversation.

Imagine how many new friends you would make, how much new business you could create, and how much fun you could have by simply taking the initiative to be the inviter.

Polishing the gold in others is easy to do and a valuable habit to develop to transform your relationship results. People will usually rise to the occasion and live up to your positive expectations.

Impeccable manners and courteous behavior are the hallmarks for healthy relations and human interaction.

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.