When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

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You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are.

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The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

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Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

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To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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