Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

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.

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.