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

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 questions are always more important than the answers.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

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.

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity