Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

The purpose is to help, to prevent, to correct, to improve, rather than to punish. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal is improvement.