When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or that I ever thought. And I just realized, it doesn't make you happy. It's an elemental truth. It's so true.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

I think globalization has been really good for America.