If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.

I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it

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

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.