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'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.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.