I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future