When we stop numbing and start feeling and learning again, we have to reevaluate everything, especially how to choose loving ourselves over making other people comfortable. It was the hardest work I’ve ever done and continue to do.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships—marriages, families, and organizations of every kind— together.

Knowledge brings power. Hence writing brings power to modern societies, by making it possible to transmit knowledge with far greater accuracy and in far greater quantity and detail, from more distant lands and more remote times.

The key to influence is always to first be influenced, that is to first be open and seek understanding.

Suffering is optional, not inevitable.

Ordinary folks with no financial education can be wealthy if they have a handful of behavioral skills that have nothing to do with formal measures of intelligence.

If God invented marriage, then those who enter it should make every effort to understand and submit to his purposes for it.

Reframe Your Reactions: See the 'Empty Boat'.

In order to cultivate personal freedom people must live in the moment and work in the present to achieve their desires, instead of getting lost in memories of the past or dreams of the future.

A good leader presents an image that gives confidence to his team.