Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.