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

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

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

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.