Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.