Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

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