Many people feed others who can't feed them, while they completely fail to nourish those who really desire to feed them.

In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.