I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.
Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you’re around.
Charisma is not just saying hello. It’s dropping what you’re doing to say hello.
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
The trouble with having a body is that people know it’s where you hang out and you don’t get any privacy.
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn’t true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.
It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do – send for reinforcements?
Love may be blind, but this I’ll state – it’s eagle-eyed compared to hate.
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.
To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don’t define it before you achieve it.
Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.
If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.
Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.