A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

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

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

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.

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