A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.

I have used cannabis all over the world.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

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.

It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.

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