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

Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

If you have a question, then find the answer.

I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

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

We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.