Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that was everything.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."