Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.
The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.
Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.
Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.
Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.