If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it