Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.