Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement.

Before You Can Lead Others, You Must Be Able to Lead Yourself.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

Go Out of Your Way to Praise Those "Quiet" Performers Who Make Things Happen.

You must know who you are and be true to who you are if you are going to be who you can and should become.

Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do.

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.

The interesting thing about this work is that we don't really do anything for them. If we tried, I think, we would fail miserably. Instead we invite them to do something radically new for themselves

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives.