1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs:

• Respect for self

• Respect for others and

• Responsibility for all your actions.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

I also know that dreams really do come true and you have my Best Wishes and my best efforts in those.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. --John Wooden

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. - R.Redford, 1987

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Ultimately, time is the most important asset you have. Not money. Not fame.
-- Ray Lane

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant: Philosopher, historian

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

The future is made in the present.
- Kelly Andrews, 1988 -

Those who speak the truth, who never become angry, who lead a spiritually pure life and are always serene are considered to be rejuvenated daily.
- Ashtanga Hridaya

Inorder to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
- Coco Chanel, 1883-1971

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise man grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim 1882-1932

Shoot for the moon - If you miss, you'll land among the stars

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.
- Giorgia Witkin 1943 -

If it's neither wealth or splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which gives happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson

Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
- Linda Hogan 1947 -

Forty thousand wishes won't fill your bucket with fishes.
- fisherman's saying -

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus c.55-c.135

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm .
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You may delay, but time will not.
•  Benjamin Franklin

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
• Anthony Robbins

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
•  Victor Kiam

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
— Annie Dillard

When your amnesia over your identity begins to be cured, you will finally realize that... grasping at self is the root cause of all your suffering. You will understand at last... that both the noblest and the wisest thing to do is to cherish others instead of cherishing yourself. This will bring healing to your heart, healing to your mind, and healing to your spirit.
-Soyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Remember there's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you'll only listen for it.
-Thomas Hughes

All things are transient on this earth, be it power, glory, wealth, and even entire civilizations. All we can do is to put our full love into our lives... making a work of art of the few precious years that are granted to us.
-Robert Muller

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-David Lloyd George

Distinction upon the differences between bosses, managers and leaders:

A boss drives. A leader leads

A boss relies on authority.

A leader relies on cooperation.

A boss says, "I." A leader says, "We."

A boss creates fear. A leader creates confidence.

A boss knows how. A leader shows how.

A boss creates resentment. A leader breeds enthusiasm.

A boss fixes blame. A leader fixes mistakes.

A boss makes work drudgery. A leader makes work interesting.

A manager administers. A leader innovates.

A manager has a short-range view. A leader has a long-range perspective.

A manager asks how and when. A leader asks what and why.

A manager accepts the status quo. A leader challenges it.

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