It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.

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.

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.

Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.