The importance of education plays a huge role.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.