Occupation: Commentator Birth: August 11, 1961
Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge..
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so..
Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest..
Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to….
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic..
In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being bette….
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves..
Russia has a very sophisticated, advanced attack on U.S. businesses and U.S. government and U.S. institutions. And it's not like Donald Trump is goin….
Pain now is better than pain deferred..
I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by h….
The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules o….
One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our….
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in r….
I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things,….
I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack K….
We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art….
We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants. We're still a country w….
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring sky….
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the l….
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building.….
Things that change history tend to be organized..