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.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.