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.

I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

If you have a question, then find the answer.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.