Trump is an innovator who has shown how out of step the political establishment was. Which I think, probably, in the long term will be healthy. We have to figure out how to reinvigorate our political institutions and he's demonstrating to us the urgency of that task.

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.