You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.