All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

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

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.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.