Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.