Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

...the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda - go ahead. That's what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don't talk about rebels and free Syrian army.

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.