Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

If you say a word often enough it becomes you.

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.