We were speaking to the Lord with the simplicity of a child talking to its father in his own language.

To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them.

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

I think that maybe sometimes people get the lives they want.

Investment basic rule number three is to keep your ordinary earned income secure by purchasing a security you hope converts your earned income into passive income or portfolio income.

In war, this is the ultimate dichotomy: a leader may have to send his most treasured asset—his people—into a situation that gets them wounded or killed.

Enrollment is acknowledgment that we’re on a journey together.

The critical first question for any lean transformation is: which activities create value and which are a form of waste? Once you understand this distinction, you can begin using lean techniques to drive out waste and increase the efficiency of the value-creating activities.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Don’t think of it as work-life balance, some kind of zero-sum game where anything you put into your work robs your life and anything you put into your life robs your work. Instead, think of it as work-life integration. The time you spend at work can be an expression of who you are as a human being, an enormous enrichment to your life, and a boon to your friends and family.