We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!