You don’t rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident … of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. - E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic

Don’t believe everything you think.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapts the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw.

Act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means. - Immanuel Kant

We all think we’re right, and then we change our mind, and then think we’re right again.

You all have a little bit of ‘I want to save the world’ in you, that’s why you’re here, in college. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you.