Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

We think we are far more creative and wiser than others who are surviving and struggling. We never put us in their shoe. We always expect them to do the same.

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Jesus told us to make disciples, not decisions.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.