A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

Leadership is influence. That’s it—nothing more, nothing less.

You must decide at the outset what degree of risk you are willing to assume and what kinds of investments are most suitable to your tax bracket. Finding your sleeping point is one of the most important investment steps you must take.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

The Church needs space not only for her liturgy and order, but also for the daily life of her members in the world.

The smartest way to deal with this kind of limitation is to cheat. Instead of forcing ourselves to do something we don’t feel like doing, we need to find a way to make us feel like doing what moves our project further along.

Driven parents are compulsively goal-oriented and super busy. They can’t stop trying to perfect everything, including other people.

Marriage is for both the overly gender-typed and the under gender-typed. It broadens us and deepens us.

A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise.

REVERSALS OF FORTUNE Reversal of polarity in a story can be the abrupt overturning of a character's fortune, a change of luck or circumstances that switches the prevailing conditions from negative to positive or vice versa.