The Last Lecture

Don’t Complain, Just Work Harder

If at First You Don’t Succeed . . . . . . TRY, TRY a cliché.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

Brick walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them—even if someone has practically had to throw you over—it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

You’d be amazed at how many nineteen-year-old boys are completely out of ideas when you take sex and violence off the table. And yet, when I asked them to think far beyond the obvious, most of them rose to the challenge.

The $100,000 Salt and Pepper Shaker

Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

often rely on people with expertise I don’t have,

Get People’s Attention