Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.