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

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

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".

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

Do what is important, not what is urgent.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.