Randy Pausch

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well and living fully.

Your passion must come from the things that fill you from the inside.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed. It is the things we do not.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well and living fully. For the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed. It is the things we do not.

You will need to find your passion. You will not find that passion in things and you will not find that passion in money, because the more things and the more money you have, the more you will just look around and use that as the metric — and there will always be someone with more.

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something, because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

When you're screwing up and nobody's saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the dreams will come to you.