I keep my phone number unlisted and rely on my associates to handle all voice mail, e-mail, faxes.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

Life is a mission, not a career.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

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