Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.

I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.

People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.