Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.