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

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

Apologies are not pass/fail.

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

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.