You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.