Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.