It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

There's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.

I think it will be pretty hard to deny the fact that prohibition of marijuana is on its way out.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.

It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.