If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.