Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

You can't live principals you can't understand.