If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts. There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics and the challenge for people in business and every other walk in life to acknowledge and live up to basic moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring.

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

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

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

Pretty isn't beauty. Pretty is how you look; Beauty is who you are. Pretty is in the face and body; Beauty is in the heart, mind and soul. Pretty fades; Beauty grows.