I have actually five honorary degrees..

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you..

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to other….

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid wel….

Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee..

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door..

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit..

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educa….

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went bac….

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bl….

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning..

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction..

Act as if you are, and you will become such..

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results..

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught..

Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. ….

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics..

Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recr….

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often..

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours fore….

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself..