In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.

You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.