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

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.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.