Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge..

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….

Things that change history tend to be organized..

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….

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest..

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..

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….

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….

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves..

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,….

Pain now is better than pain deferred..

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….

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….

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….

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….

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic..

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate..

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….

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building.….

Live life as a series of revelations.

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….