“You can't motivate a student you don't know.”

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”

“My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.”

“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”

“Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.”

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”