when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.