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.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking.