I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.