Live life as a series of revelations.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?.

Things that change history tend to be organized..

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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..

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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 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,….

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….

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….

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….