While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.