What will matter is not your success but your significance.

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

The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.

When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us.

Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows.

Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.