If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.

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

The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.

When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.