Who Are You?

“Life is 10% what you’re given, and 90% how you respond to it.”
—Jim Larranaga, Basketball Coach, George Mason U.

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ‘sure thing’ boat never gets far from shore.”
—Dale Carnegie

“When I am asked who are the most memorable personalities that I have encountered in more than 40 years of journalism, I expect that my interrogators think that I'm going to say...any number of big marquee names that make up the headlines of my career…. But the memorable people for me represent that vast population of young and old of every hue and origin who gave up comforts and convention to answer their conscience, who are guided by their moral compass to difficult challenges and who are determined to make a difference. They lived in the real world and they took responsibility for it. They did not attach themselves simply to a virtual experience and find satisfaction in a search engine. They were boots on the ground, hands in the dirt, nights in scary places, healing and courageous.... Life away from the keyboard, the PDA and the cell phone is a life in which you connect to the websites of your personal convictions.”
—Tom Brokaw, 2006 Commencement Address at Stanford University

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced…. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
—Cherokee Proverb