Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.