Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.