“No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.”

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. … Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

There never was a winner, who wasn’t a beginner.

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you’ve got the real thing, you don’t have to flaunt a loud imitation.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it’s a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you’re in the NHL.

Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I’d have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it’s a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.

To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.