While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

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.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Internal victories precede external victories.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.