"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning."

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."

"Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit."

"The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."

"It is a enduring truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a enduring truth that courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."