Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

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

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

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.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.