I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.