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.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

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.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.