And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.

I remember knowing, for a while, for a long time, that I was kind of abnormal in some sense.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.