Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

Progression and achievement belong to those who have learned to use the opportunity of now. Our strides of today will determine our locations tomorrow.

Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others.

Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.

The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.