Wisdom

Some dreams are bad dreams. All these people dream their dreams and work hard and achieve their dreams. Personal triumphs are overrated.

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

This education is a gift that you will be unwrapping for the rest of your life.

Be fearless, but make sure it's thoughtful and mindful fearlessness.

The kind of ideas she lives with. Think of it. Not what happens to her, not love affairs or good career breaks, but what she thinks about.

Education is about absorbing what others have learned and created and believe, but it is also about our responses to those concepts and those convictions.

Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you do want to do.

Every single now is the rest of your life.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really there is no normal. There's only change, and resistance to it, and then more change.

Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

All the greatness you may achieve in your career doesn't amount to a whole lot if your personal life is a mess.