You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize the control of the circumstance and dominate every last detail: to guarantee that they're going to have a far better time than they ever would have had if they tried to control it themselves.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.