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It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

I think of events like the Challenger and 9/11 - events that move us so much that we never quite get over them. So it's important to go back and relive those feelings in order to remember how important those events were to us.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.