Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.