To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.