One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

We don't deserve anything; we must work for everything.

I don't believe in dreams. I believe in going after it.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Produce results on the mat and in the classroom

Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

Truth is a fact we fall in love with

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

If I dont get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.