Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?

The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.