I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, 'Did you ask any great questions today?' And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we're excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.

The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.