I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.