People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.