I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

Look for the best in everybody

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.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.