Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.

Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.

Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.

What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.