The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.

Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.