Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.

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.

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.