Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.