It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

When you are through learning you are through.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.