The epoxy see eyes technique: hold gaze on the subject even when another party is speaking. Conveys intense confidence and interest in the subject. Use with caution.

Smile big at the right time. Women who were slower to smile in the corporate world are perceived as more credible.

The flooding smile: when meeting someone, don’t smile right away. Pause for a moment, then let a big flooding smile go over your mouth and eyes. This will give them the impression that the smile is more genuine

Use your eyes–strong eye contact gives the impression of respect and affection. It also gives the impression of being an abstract thinker.

The sticky eyes technique: hold your gaze as much as possible. When talking about personal matters with another men, hold your gaze a little less.

Watch your posture whenever you walk through a doorway. Hold your head high, your shoulders back, and your torso out. This will convey confidence and command respect.

It is amazing how much people get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

Relax ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Puppet camp truly redefined my preconceptions of puppetry... I'll never forget learning that before a puppet can speak... he has to inhale. It's those details that make the characters truly come to life.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

Preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Of course I have a personal life.