Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.