We must change the culture of politics first.

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

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

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.

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.

The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

I love the Discovery Channel. I love all sorts of medical shows. I love a show called Diagnosis: Unknown.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

I am completely Socratic.

Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional.

A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of the problems.... Edward Cullen Twilight, Chapter 5