What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?

Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.

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

To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.