Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.

Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.