Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.

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

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.