My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

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.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

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

Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.