“You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.”

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Begin with the end in mind.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.

You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.