Leadership is communicating others’ worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

While using generics, people describe themselves as who they want to be, not who they actually are.

All men of the modern world exist in a state of continual and flagrant antagonism between their conscience and their way of life.

Threshold Guardians have the important psychological function of announcing the need for change. Something deep inside us knows when we are ready to change and sends us a messenger.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining.

The most important power we have is the power to help select the lens through which we see reality.

Strategy must come before tactics to ensure effective execution.

Putting Your Feelings Into Words

The virtue is to know how to use money: giving to the right people, the right amount at the right time.

You did good on that bird," Ginnie Sue told me. "You strike me as the kind of girl who's one day going to be eating roast chicken and those on-fire desserts just as much as you want.