Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'