I've got to follow them - I am their leader.

You can't help those who don't know they need help.

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

There's something really cool about getting scared. I don't know what.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.