Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.