Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

Proverb

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

Robert G. Ingersoll, from a eulo

Those that will not hear must be made to feel.

Proverb

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Hubbard

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

R. D. Laing

A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.

Voltaire

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Jon Taffer

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Joe Karbo

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.

Tanya R. Liverman

If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.

Kurt Vonnegut

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Arthur Schopenhauer