It's in our interest to continue with the Paris Agreement and to deal with climate change as the real threat it actually is.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

Everything you need is already inside.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!

I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?