Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

We need to make sure our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.

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.

When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.

Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.