1) Life is challenging but also beautiful, embrace the difficulties, appreciate its beauty.

2) The world can be gray, not black and white.

3) There is no right way to do something wrong.

4) Stress comes from doing something you do not want to be doing.

5)  We often confuse honesty with bitterness.

6) We do not worry enough about our character and too much about our reputation. Our character is who we really are, our core values, our integrity, our own personal mission statement; it is essentially who we are when no one is looking.  Our reputation is what others think we are. If you have to choose, select character as the most important.

7) If you make a decision for the right reasons… no matter how much it hurts, you have made the right decision.

8) My parents were right, saying thank you, please, excuse me, as well as beginning and ending a sentence with yes, sir, and no, ma’am, will get you extraordinarily far in this world.

9) It’s better to be alone and happy than to be married, lonely, and miserable.

10)   Arrogance and self-awareness rarely go together.