Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate.

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"