Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.

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

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

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.