Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.