You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.
Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.
Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.
There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.
Values are good things only if they are good values.
What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.