Education

Great educators change lives.

Today is not the day you switch from receive to transmit. Once you do that, your education is over. And your education should never be over.

In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It's not cool to not know what you're talking about. That's not keeping it real, or telling it like it is. That's just not knowing what you're talking about.

An answer can only be as good as the question asked.

'Wait, what' is at the root of all understanding. 'I wonder' is at the heart of all curiosity. 'Couldn't we at least' is the beginning of all progress. 'How can I help' is at the base of all good relationships. And 'what really matters' gets you to the heart of life.

Our stories are ladders that make it easier for us to touch the stars. So climb and grab them. Keep climbing. Grab them.

At the core, none of us were meant to be common. We were born to be comets, darting across space and time — leaving our mark as we crash into everything.

Education is no equalizer — rather, it is the sleep that precedes the American Dream. So wake up. Lift your voices until you've patched every hole in a child's broken sky.

Love is not like mass or energy — it is not conserved.

The life lessons that I learned at Cushing Academy, I carry with me every single day like you'd carry a cell phone, and I use them every single day like you use Instagram.

Don't go to college. It's super expensive and super hard. Seriously, don't waste your time and money unless you want to be a doctor, then I totally get it. No one's going to let you take out their spleen unless you have a degree. The rest of you, go read some books.

In bringing the president to me, in having me speak to and question a shaper of history and experience the value he saw in my view, Harvard would make me feel I too could be him. I too had the power to shape history and not just be passively shaped by it.