Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

I am convinced more than ever that good communication and leadership are all about connecting. If you can connect with others at every level -one-on-one, in groups, and with an audience-your relationships are stronger, your sense of community improves, your ability to create teamwork increases, your influence increases, and your productivity skyrockets.

You can change your tomorrow if you do something today. Few people understand how the way you live today impacts your tomorrow. Today is the only time we have within our grasp, yet many people let it slip through their fingers, recognizing neither its value nor potential. If we want to do something with our lives, then we must make today matter, because that's where tomorrow's success lies.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.