No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

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.

If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.