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

Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

It's actually easier to truly become a person of good character than to persuade others we are what we are not.

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy it only makes sense to discipline ourselves to choose our attitudes, to think positively and to be hopeful.