Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

Not everything needs to be fixed

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.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.