The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.

Proactive people carry their own weather with them.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.