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.

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

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

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.