“Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.”

“Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals… except the weasel.”

“We learn what something is not — and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.”

“Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.”

“You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.”

“Is it important to be right or is it important to do what’s right? That’s one of the hardest lessons to learn.”

“You know what? When someone does that for me, it makes me feel really good. It's like you're important.”

“The most important thing in life is to love what you're doing, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.”

“What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.”

“… it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.”