I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

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.

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

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