Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be

Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.

Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.