I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

Every person who denies the truth is a coward who doesn't want to admit the truth

It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.

I don't break up, I trade up

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.