Rules for winning people to your side:

1. Treat everyone you meet as if they were important.

2. Be friendly.

3. Be a good listener — let other people do the talking.

4. Don't argue; you may win an argument but you will lose a friend.

5. Put yourself in the other fellow's shoes.

6. Practice finding the good in people.

Thoughts by the late Rev. Paul Osumi are selected weekly by his family.