Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime.

As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.

And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

No communication takes place until the other person feels heard

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.