Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.

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

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

I also think my dad would be reminding me that kids — more than anything else — need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore.

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

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.