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You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.