The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important – or just for enough of what feels important – is that you definitely never will.

The greatest truths in life are usually the most unpleasant to hear.

The mere opportunity to escape does not necessarily make traumatized animals, or people, take the road to freedom. Like Maier and Seligman’s dogs, many traumatized people simply give up.

Use meetings to get everyone on the same page, get to the right debate, and make decisions.

My success or failure in life largely depends on me... I alone am responsible for my choices.

The Commandment of Control: Your business should give you full control. Make sure you’re the one offering franchises and affiliate programs, or collecting rent and royalties.

There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.

Love starts as a focusing of attention. The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.

The quality of names in a software system can affect its perceived complexity in non-trivial ways. Good names provide clarity by telling the reader what an entity is and what it is not, which reduces the need for extensive comments.

The wonderfully exciting thing about faith-sized requests when two or more are praying is that so many times as you pray by subjects, exactly the same request will come to two or more of you at the same time.