You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit