What we have and what we are given are not as important as what we contribute and what we leave behind.

We put our money where our heart is.

When people are free to act on their own, they usually just copy someone else.

You can't heal your own wounds until you help someone else heal theirs. Stop wallowing, start serving.

You must learn to handle more if you want to accomplish more. I don't mean being busy, I mean the size of the load.

A pessimist burns his bridges before he gets to them.

Advice or counsel is normally only sought when it is expected to coincide with the opinion of the asker.

Asking good questions of yourself is a good start toward coming up with good answers.

When the Sun Comes Up . . . Driven by the purpose for which they were born, winners awake running their race. buff.ly/8Q5zi0k

Being a workaholic and being lazy are two sides of the same coin; failure.

Business is a contact sport played in the marketplace.

Combat is not the normal state of things in healthy human relationships. If you're always in combat you might want to lay down your guns.

Do we pick our passions or do they pick us?

Don't love yourself too much; it doesn't leave room for others to do so.

Electronics have both made us less there when we're there, and less away when we're away.

Excellence always succeeds, it's just a matter of when, how, and how big.

Greatness isn't for those who dabble, nor for those who deliberate, but for those who decide.

History is an early warning system about tomorrow.

I said I'd give you a penny for your thoughts, but you put your two cents in, which was really just a dime a dozen.

If the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it!