When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you

Remember that failure is an event, not a person

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person