Children do better when they feel better.

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?

One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.

When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

What we do is never as important as how we do it.

I don't fear fracking. I fear carbon

I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit.

What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.