Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.