If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.

The wonderful thing about sound is that it is invitational, so ultimately each person is going to find their own relation to the material.

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.