Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

It takes people some time to appreciate that their greater resources are often the people they know.

Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ...Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

If you believe you have a just cause, an important message, or a key contribution to make, you will be just as innovative as a college freshman desperate to see his girlfriend six hundred miles away. You will get there any way you can.

I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.

Sometimes facing opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.