I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.

We must change the culture of politics first.

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.

We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.

Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us.

The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Management by Walking Around

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free.

If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. And through repetition, something becomes true. If you repeat it enough. Until it becomes true. Or do I need to repeat that for you?

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.