Your reputation is none of your business.

Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.

I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."

Stop giving energy to the things you don't want.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.