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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. - Author object (328)

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions. - Author object (328)

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. - Author object (328)

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say no to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside. The enemy of the best is often the good. - Author object (328)

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities - Author object (328)

The way we see the problem is the problem. - Author object (328)

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. - Author object (328)

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. - Author object (328)

There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles. - Author object (328)

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic - Author object (328)

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological. - Author object (328)

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it. - Author object (328)

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. - Author object (328)

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell. - Author object (328)

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Author object (411)

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. - Author object (411)

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. - Author object (411)

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. - Author object (411)

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. - Author object (411)

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again. - Author object (411)