“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make”

“If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.”

“Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and actinterdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players”

“In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.”

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.”