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.

If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.

Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

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

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.