What business leaders have learned, very painfully, is that individuals cannot be reduced to numbers... Even Peter Drucker, the champion of well-measured goals, understood the limits of calibration.

When you are making a marital commitment, you are making a vow, a promise. So another crucial question is, Does this person keep his or her promises?

It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.

Most of our suffering takes place when we allow our minds to imagine the future or mull over the past.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects, to show that she is only His image.Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

The ability to generate new ideas has more to do with breaking with old habits of thinking than with coming up with as many ideas as possible.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Once you are in power, you are likely to remain there because of all of the processes I have described in this chapter.

The more you welcome your vulnerability, the less afraid you’ll feel.

A commitment is a promise made from love. A commitment is making a promise to something without expecting a return—out of sheer lovingness.