Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.

Don't compare yourself with other people, compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know. You must remain awake to catch yourself in the act. You must remove the beam in your own eye, before you concern yourself with the mote in your brother's. And in this way, you strengthen your own spirit, so it can tolerate the burden of existence, and you rejuvenate the state.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.