When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.

To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.