Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.

Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.

Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.

Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.