The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

We should use our economic power in lots of different ways. I think we can use that in order to keep [Vladimir] Putin contained, because he is a one-horse show. Energy. And we have an abundance of energy, but we have archaic energy exportation rules. We need to get rid of those, allow ourselves to really make Europe dependent on us and other parts of the world dependent on us for energy. Put him back in his little box where he belongs.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.