The more our values are in harmony with principles, the better decisions we will make… and the more inner peace we will have.

So we worked on visualising relaxation in the middle of the big pressure circumstance. We discovered that the nature of the visualisation is very important. If you visualise the wrong thing, you'll produce the wrong thing.

I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

If you visualize the wrong thing, you'll produce the wrong thing.

Only when you have the self-awareness to examine your program—and the imagination and conscience to create a new, unique, principle-centered program to which you can say "yes"—only then will you have sufficient independent will power to say "no," with a genuine smile, to the unimportant.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

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

If you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it.

We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.

It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. In

It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.