I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.