Be the Best If I were a cobbler, it would be my pride The best of all cobblers to be; If I were a tinker, no tinker beside Should mend an old kettle like me. – Old ditty First you, then the Rest! There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. All else comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner. – Aldous Huxley Try to get the Real ‘A’s in Life Just because somebody gets an ‘A’ in college doesn’t make him the greatest man in the United States, because maybe his ‘A’s will stop when he gets his diploma, and the fellow who got ‘C’s in school will go on later to get the real ‘A’s in life. – Norman Vincent Peale Do you like to be Extraordinary? The craze to be extraordinary is ordinary. The ego wants to be extraordinary. Learn to renounce it. Learn to enjoy doing the ordinary with extraordinary awareness. Creativity has nothing to do with work but everything to do with the quality of awareness. The quality of thankfulness, joy and deep awareness is true creativity. – Swami Sukhabodhananda