Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

It's easier to make a good person better than to make a bad person good.

Some jobs require a more consistent challenge to moral courage than others. Politics is one. In such a setting terrifically good men and women will still be found wanting occasionally. No one does the right thing all the time. It would be more generous and fair to consider their batting average than to judge them only by their last worst act.