When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.