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

To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.

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

Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

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