Be warm and personal by backing it up with examples, stories and anecdotes that the person on the other end of the phone can relate to and understand.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer

His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.