Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.