Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.