A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world