“Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.”

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Perform your job better than anyone else can. That’s the best job security I know.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

When you hug someone, never be the first to let go.

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Bad leaders care about who is right, good leaders care about who is right.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Every day we make decisions, big and small. Those choices paint a picture of who we are.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.