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.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.

Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.