• 1. There is no free lunch. Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.
• 2. Set goals and work quietly and systematically toward them.
• 3. Assign yourself.
• 4. Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
• 5. Don't be afraid of taking risks or of being criticized.
• 6. Take parenting and family life seriously and insist that those you work for and who represent you do.
• 7. Remember that your wife (spouse) is not your mother or your maid but your partner and friend.
• 8. Forming families is serious business.
• 9. Be honest.
• 10. Remember, and help America remember, that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
• 11. Sell the shadow for the substance.
• 12. Never give up.
• 13. Be confident that you can make a difference.
• 14. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind.
• 15. Don't be afraid of hard work or of teaching your children to work.
• 16. Slow down and live.
• 17. Choose your friends carefully.
• 18. Be a can-do, will-try person.
• 19. Try to live in the present.
• 20. Use your political and economic power for the community and others less fortunate.
• 21. Listen for "the sound of the genuine" within yourself and others.
• 22. You are in charge of your own attitude.
• 23. Remember your roots, your history, and the forbearers' shoulders on which you stand.
• 24. Be reliable. Be faithful. Finish what you start.
• 25. Always remember that you are never alone.

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