Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.

I guess I'd rather be loved than respected.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can ... our attitude.