Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

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.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.