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

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

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

We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

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.