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.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

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

I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.