Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.