What is common sense isn't common practice.

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

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

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

The only person I know, is the person I want to be.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.

When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children... This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.