Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.

Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.

Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.

Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.

Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. 

                                          Mahatma Gandhi  

(From Arun Gandhi's speech March 2002, in Hawaii, at Diamond Head Unity, for the first Season for Peace in Hawaii about teachings from his grandfather Mohandas K. Mahatma Gandhi)

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Russian novelist (1821 - 1881)