It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

Children are people, not machines. We want them to be able to connect and relate rather than become robots.

The system runs the business. The people run the system.

Problems add a sense of meaning and importance to our lives. Some of the greatest moments of one’s life are not pleasant, not successful, not known, and not positive.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays the drifter corner of the triangle in Titanic. The secret of his remarkable attractive powers may be that he projects the archetypal mask of the sensitive young man, displaying both masculine action and feminine sensitivity.

One way to demonstrate your competence is to share what you know and encourage others to do the same.

When we don’t purposefully and deliberately choose where to focus our energies and time, other people—our bosses, our colleagues, our clients, and even our families—will choose for us.

In fact, many or most inventions were developed by people driven by curiosity or by a love of tinkering, in the absence of any initial demand for the product they had in mind.

The owner of an idea is not he who imagines it, but he who executes it.

The sun can make you take off your coat more quickly than the wind; and kindliness, the friendly approach and appreciation can make people change their minds more readily than all the bluster and storming in the world.