'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

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'.

Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.