To become a collaborative team player... Think win-win-win. King Solomon of ancient Israel observed, "Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." Usually when you collaborate with others, you win, they win, and the team wins. Find someone on the team with a similar role whom you have previously seen as a competitor. Figure out ways you can share information and work together to benefit both you and the team.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

Your friends are a reflection of you.

Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers.

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.