I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.

It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.