Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

One of my greatest lessons has been to fully understand that what looks like a dark patch in the quest for success is the universe pointing you in a new direction. Anything can be a miracle, a blessing, an opportunity if you choose to see it that way.