“It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.”

“If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.”

“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”

“Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three”

“When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.”

“Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually”

“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”