Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.