This tree stands alone here in the mountains; it has grown tall beyond human and beast.*
‘And if it wanted to talk, it would have no one who could understand it: so tall has it grown.
‘Now it is waiting and waiting—yet what is it waiting for? It dwells too near the seat of the clouds: is it perhaps waiting for the first lightning?’*

"For me, it was just failure after failure after failure because I want to succeed right away."

"In my 30s, I became really depressed and honestly I thought about killing myself."

"I was playing video games every single day. I just hid in my parents' basement."

"It took me a long time to get over the trauma and recognize this is a false system. Yale traumatized me."

"That's why I'm a teacher today... to teach you guys that to be successful in life, this is the formula. You don't need Harvard, Yale, and Princeton."