“Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.”

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.

Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”

There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world – no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Character is simply habit long continued.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can’t or don’t do in my normal everyday life.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.