Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

What is common sense isn't common practice.