Progress is more important than perfection.

Early in your marriage you will realize what power you have to hurt your spouse. Y ou will know his or her sensitivities like no one else. And cutting remarks from you will go deeper than any knife.

I would wish you good luck in this endeavor—on your path to power. But luck has little to do with it. Instead, I wish you all the power that you seek.

Rules and social conventions are made by those in power, mostly to ensure that their power is perpetuated.

Successful people are willing to put themselves in new and unfamiliar situations.

Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.

We have discovered that helping victims of trauma find the words to describe what has happened to them is profoundly meaningful, but usually it is not enough.

There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business—or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Being well cared for in nonemotional areas can create confusion in people who grow up feeling emotionally lonely. They have overwhelming physical evidence that their parents loved and sacrificed for them, but they feel a painful lack of emotional security and closeness with their parents.

Reckon ye yourselves indeed to be dead unto sin and alive unto God in Christ Jesus.