"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment."

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good."

"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within."

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."