“Listen to other people tell their story, but don’t believe them. You know that it’s just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.”

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

I am here and I’m alive. That’s enough.

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read ‘The Four Agreements’, you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them

Japan always keeps our door for communication open.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Aptitude for listening urges us to create bridges of communication.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

You can’t win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.