Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. I've always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected meto end up. When you're through changing, you're through. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. Look twice before you leap. One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say. Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.