We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.