Look for the best in everybody

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

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.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.