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

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.