The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.

I think globalization has been really good for America.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.'

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.