Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.

There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.

There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

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

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

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