Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.