Apologies are not pass/fail.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

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.

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

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.

Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work or in a relationship, I had to play fair. "Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.