If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

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

I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.