Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb.

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.

If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.