Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.

The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.

Problems almost always create opportunities - to learn, grow and improve.