The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

When our theories continually move us into more and more complicated explanations then, it is certain that we are moving in the wrong direction.

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

All those layers of silence upon silence.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.