Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.