When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.

The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.