"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"It is a enduring truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless."

"I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record."

"No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best."

"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."