Education isn’t something your professors make for you. It’s something you make for yourself.

A new grace for a new life is what we need in the coming year.

I don't know how to hate

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

Bullying can leave scars that do not heal.

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr. C, who used to be Mr. B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.