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.

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

Private victories precede public victories.

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.