A positive attitude will kindle the hearts of good people to do great things.

A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.

True love can enjoy all the seasons of life from the wonder of our youth to the understanding of our middle age to the mystery of our elder years.

Love that survives dark and troubled roads will create a bond that the easy path can never know.

To love is to throw yourself into the fires of life for another with the hope that your sacrifice will bring them warmth and comfort when their world is dark and cold.

Be willing to sacrifice any job to protect your career.

You own your career not your job.

When dealing with a legal matter – always remember that you are your own best advocate. No one will care as much about the case as you do. Use lawyers but remember – you must take primary responsibility for a successful outcome.

E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority.

Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us ‘old friend” in the years to come.

One of the greatest titles we can have is “old friend”. We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older. The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young. We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age when a busy life and changing geographies can cause us to neglect those friends. Today is the day to invest in those people we hope will call us ‘old friend” in the years to come.

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

Wise organizations hire hearts not hands.

The further you are from the roots of the organization – the more likely you’ll end up out on a limb with the nuts.

Love is perfected not in the budding springtime of youth nor even in the bounty of middle age but in the frost of our elder years when we only then truly appreciate the ripened fruit that remains.

There are many life journeys we all must take but we do not need to walk any of these bright or dark roads alone.

Electing someone who is not a great politician is like having surgery done by someone who is not a great surgeon.

As a couple, it is better to face a fierce storm from outside a relationship than to know the doldrums of a listless life.

Two great people do not necessarily make a great couple. That fact does not diminish them.

True love is not an accomplishment – it is an unfinished symphony with movements that sound the major and minor chords of a life together.

Marriage is an act of faith informed but not dictated by the counsel of those we love and those who love us. We get to own our successes and failures.

There is no perfect match in marriage – but there are matches that are not worthy of marriage.

Marriage will not solve any existing problems – it will only deepen them. Having children will not solve the problems in a marriage – it will only create more victims for the coming explosion.

Marriage is not a 50/50 proposition – it is both giving 100%. Relationships today need 200% effort to survive.

Never settle for someone – or allow someone to settle for you.

Couples who are alike before marriage are more likely to like each other later in life.

Relationships before marriage are the best of times and the worst of times – the forces that are drawing you together are dynamic and powerful.

Every relationship has its patterns – the nature of that relationship develops its own rhythm and those good and bad patterns are not likely to change – only deepen.

Every relationship is unique – it is the mystery of the human experience that no combination of people are the same as any other.

People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can’t just let it be “water under the bridge.” It is water under the bridge – the trouble is we do not live on the bridge but in the river of life with its many twists and turns.

Forgiving someone else does not change them – it changes you.

Forgiving others is good for them and best for us.

God gives us the gift of forgetting when we choose the grace of forgiving.

Many people live their lives bitter over how others have hurt them never knowing that the others often neither knew or remembered the hurt they caused. Better to choose to forgive what in fact others have probably already forgot.

Many people say ‘I will forgive but I will not forget’ but to truly practice forgiveness is to practice forgetting.

Those who choose to forgive others choose to live the life God intended them to have.

To forgive others is to free our tomorrows.

Forgiveness is the power granted to each of us to release us from a lifetime of anger and bitterness.

We often hear of important gatherings of the “great and the good.” Sadly the great have not often been good. But the good have learned that it is better to be good than to be great. Rare is the person in this life who is both great and good.

Great leaders and great friends have learned how to lend hope to those in despair.

Effective leaders know how to be less hammer and more Swiss army knife.

Find what satisfies someone and you have a deeper way to motivate them.

If you want loyalty – get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention – get a smart dog.

He does not just march to the beat of a different drummer — he’s in a whole other parade.

You will never fully enjoy any true happiness in your life until you have fully embraced any true sadness in your life as well.

Speech recognition software is the stealth solution flying under the radar today that will revolutionize all our tomorrows.

We will look back on speech recognition software that became truly useful in the year 2000 as the real Y2K revolution.

If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is its father.

We encounter the Divine when our imagination glimpses the One who dared to imagine us.

Imagination is the universal gift from the Creator who could imagine a universe.

We were given enchanted lives to give to others but in our selfishness we end up with lives that are disenchanted and that can not even be given away.

The spiritual dimension of life is the least explored and yet the most wondrous reality we can know.

The metaphor is the skeleton key to unlock the mind of any student.

Great teachers do not just know their subject – they love it. They do not just pass on knowledge – they pass on wonder. They do not just spend time teaching – they invest themselves into every student. They do not just improve results – they transform the imagination of those they teach.

The very best teachers do not teach their students – they enchant them with the wonder of learning that will last a lifetime.

The ideal education gives you the ability to learn whenever you need to learn, to do whatever you need to do, to make a difference wherever you go.

The best education is not about learning how to do a job – it is about learning the wonder of life. Those who discover the wonder of life will always find something important to do.

A hungry child can not digest their education.

Of those to whom too much is given – not much should be expected.