The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

Live life as a series of revelations

Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

I can't imagine that being in the Trump Cabinet will be a very important job. I do think this will be a White House-run administration with a teeny-tiny group of people surrounding him, including his family maybe.