To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".