Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

If today your company doesn’t know what its ONE Thing is, then the company’s ONE Thing is to find out.

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.

Love isn't a weakness.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

I feel really good when I haven't felt good for a long time and then suddenly I feel okay again. Nothing feels better than this.