Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

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

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.