Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

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

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

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.

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.