The importance of recognizing these preverbal inclinations is that they are clear indications of an attraction that is not infected by the desires of other people.

Our commitments give us our identity. They are how we introduce ourselves to strangers. They are the subjects that make our eyes shine in conversation.

This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.

In the twenty-first century, careers and lives don’t roll off an assembly line. We have to put together the pieces ourselves.

The how-to-do-it always comes to the person who believes he can do it.

Transactional trust is “I trust that you will do what you say”. That’s important, but the deeper issue relates to relational trust - which is at the core of the first dysfunction.

Balance is in living, loving, learning, and leaving a legacy, and our roles create the synergistic, sometimes seasonal avenues through which we do it.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

At the heart of empowerment is trustworthiness—which is a function of character and competence.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.