Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.

By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.