Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.