Tell someone a story, and you capture their imagination. Make someone laugh, and you capture their friendship. Bring a tear to their eye with poignant grace, and you capture their heart. But never, never attempt...

Visualization: daydreaming with a purpose.

Without a sense of humor, you don’t have much sense at all.

Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected

Selling yourself short shortchanges others who could reap the benefits of what you have to offer; it also shortchanges you who could, in turn, reap the benefits of what others want to offer you.

Give others the benefit of the doubt. Until they run out of benefit and you run out of doubt.

If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but a blurred image; an image composed of thousands of tiny dots of paint....