Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Interdependency follows independence.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.