In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

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".

They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.