We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.