Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

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

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.