Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.

Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.

The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.

Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.

The kind of courage that is strengthened or created by concern about what others will think is really a form of fear. Fear of disapproval or dishonor becoming stronger than fear of injury or even death.

We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think we have.