When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are.

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.