People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

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

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.