The secret to failing isn't failing; the secret to failing is failing forward.

Great leaders remove obstacles-including themselves.

Life is not "either or," it's "both and"

If you don't live in your strengths, you'll die in your weaknesses. Do first and most what you're good at, and bring others along who are good at your weaknesses.

It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It’s definitely always a place that’s going to be very special to me.

We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.