Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.

People should be called the way that they want to be called rather than us coming up with terms that maybe we're more comfortable with.

We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.

Abortion is a searing and divisive public policy issue precisely because two significant sets of rights are in conflict, and no matter which set of laws it enacts, society must choose between those rights.

People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

Most of my education has been around food.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.