Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.