Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole 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.

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.