One of the problems with today's society is our LACK of effective communication.  How many opportunities are lost because we don't know what to say?

This book should be required reading for every teenager (and those of us who have forgotten the art of communication).

Excerpt:

"Edward," said he, "whenever I am going to write anything, I find it best to think first what I am going to say."

In the instruction thus conveyed is a lesson which nine writers out of ten have never learned. Even the people who write leading articles for the newspapers do not, half the time, know what they are going to say when they begin."