You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.