My dad, I still think, had the most beautiful, simple checklist for what you should do in life: Do something you really love that you would do it anyway. Do it in the most adventurous place you can do it. And make sure that it helps other people. And if you feel there's a genuine need for it, and that through that need you can help other people, you're home.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.