The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Being the first born gives you great patience.