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.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

I never met a person from whom I did not learn something.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.