In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand.

I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.