More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.

She got to go to heaven four days early.