Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

If all you do is follow the herd, you'll just be stepping in poop all day

When I was in high school if you were black and lived in Detroit, and you wanted to drive down to Florida to go on vacation, you had to plan to drive all the way through, because you couldn't stop in a hotel all the way through South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We can't even fathom such a thing now, can we?

Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.

Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.

The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.