I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Develop a good filing system.

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

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

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.