Leadership in agriculture means listening—to the land, the science, and the people who work it.

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."

The pain of hard work is temporary, but the regret of not trying lasts forever.

Good deeds do not cancel out bad, nor do bad deeds erase good.

Only by continuous learning can we make continuous progress.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas.