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

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

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.