At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

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.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.

Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.