I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.

Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.