I wanted to be your Hero

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything—literally and figuratively.

The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.

There is no better coach than the bench.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.