It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.

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

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.