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.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!