There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.