“Being is seeing in the human dimension.”

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.

You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

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.

Internal victories precede external victories.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.

Best not to know what’s waiting around the corner.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.