Randy Pausch on time management: Here's what I know: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. Ask yourself: Are you spending your time on the right things? Develop a good filing system. Rethink the telephone. Delegate. Take a time out. Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

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.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

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

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

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