Stephen R. Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

The most beautiful girls wear their hearts on their sleeves and their souls in their smiles.

I’ve always said, ‘If you need Viagra, you’re probably with the wrong girl.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

The only time a woman has a true orgasm is when she’s shopping.

A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

One of the reasons why I think that me and Kim are very powerful together isn’t just the concept of celebrity or this mega rap star and this mega-beautiful pop star. It’s something I explain to my girl: She is who she is. I am who I am. We have advisers and friends and everything, but those people are who they are and we are who we are. And what I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people’s advice. There’s a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement, it is too fleeting; as an occupation, it is too wearing; as a public exhibition, there is no money in it. It is unsuited to the drawing room, and in the most cultured society it has long been banished from the social board. It has at last, in our day of progress and improvement, been degraded to brotherhood with flatulence. Among the best bred, these two arts are now indulged only in private– though by consent of the whole company, when only males are present, it is still permissible, in good society, to remove the embargo on the fundamental sigh.

I only f**k with people who are secure enough to be happy for me and hype me up. I don’t want any ‘friends’ who fall silent during my success.

Don’t base a relationship on sex. You need love, compassion and caring. Then sex can be a reflection of that.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.