"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." 


~ John Wooden

“To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.” —Jessamyn West

"...when all things go wrong to us, we must believe that God is doing the very best."
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the lowly pg 63

"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."

--Golda Meir,
4th Israeli prime minister

By confronting our failures, we come closer to reaching perfection.

The Power of Teamwork click on the "Watch The DVD Movie" link.

 A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.   
Paine, Thomas

Invictus

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

I look forward to the movie...http://invictusmovie.warnerbros.com/