The secret to failing isn't failing; the secret to failing is failing forward.

You'll never be great at anything you're not passionate about.

Life is not "either or," it's "both and"

If you don't live in your strengths, you'll die in your weaknesses. Do first and most what you're good at, and bring others along who are good at your weaknesses.

We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

Great leaders remove obstacles-including themselves.

It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It’s definitely always a place that’s going to be very special to me.

Take 30 seconds to encourage everyone you meet today. Everyone. Be genuine and transparent. And do it. Then do it tomorrow. Repeat.

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!