Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.