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.

You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

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