Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.