If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

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.

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.

You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.