Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs -- each with our own unique brand.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first

You have to envision yourself winning to win.

In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

leaders don't watch but make things happen-initiate change

You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.

I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

When I'm running, I'm looking for contact. It's kind of weird. It brings a fire to me. When I get older I'll probably get wise and not do that.

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.