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

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

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

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

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.

Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.