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.

One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.