You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

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

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

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.