An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.