paradigms from which my behavior and attitude flow are congruent with my deepest values and in harmony with correct principles. It also means to begin each day with those values firmly in mind. Then as the vicissitudes, as the challenges come, I can make my decisions based on those values. I can act with integrity. I don't have to react to the emotion, the circumstance. I can be truly proactive, value driven, because my values are clear.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

The principles you live by create the world you live in.

You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of your paradigms and understanding how to shift them and align them with principles.

Just as junk food and lack of exercise can ruin an athlete's condition, those things that are obscene, crude, or pornographic can breed an inner darkness that numbs our higher sensibilities and substitutes the social conscience of "Will I be found out?" for the natural or divine conscience of "What is right and wrong?

Sow a thought, reap an action.

Our secret life is where we are able to tap into the power of the four human endowments: self-awareness, conscience, imagination, and independent will.

We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically

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

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. Habits are powerful factors