You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.