“Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.”

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.

You add value to people when you value them.

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

People can open doors for you, but you must walk through.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

It is your choice to either stay halfway through or to continue your journey once you start it, to reach that destination of the person you know you can be.

Take responsibility for the choices you could have made but restrained yourself from making.

When you know what are you are doing and have a clear vision of where you are going, you will not need to chase opportunities. Opportunities will seek you. Happiness will chase you. And, instead of being a choice, you will be the one choosing.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.