But sometimes, you're going through your day and BANG, there's an explosion and everything you know is gone.

It's already 1am, you guys can leave. I can do the rest by myself.

I remember sitting at this very table with you, some 20 years ago, working on my first campaign.

30 years ago, 30 years, I leaked three names to Mossad, three terrorist names, during a desperate time, the Inti-fucking-fada.

Well, after your friend here made contact with her and demanded his cut, we agreed that it was time to end this, so she got in touch with her contact, and she told them.

So as my friend was trying to explain that experiment, it seemed like the more he said, the less I understood.

Now, you may push the car to the limits not because you're driving too fast, but because you've hit an icy patch of road, conditions have changed.

We only think about them when they go wrong, so, when there's a broken arm, or when you have a heart attack, then you become really very aware of your bodies.

And the really amazing thing is, because there were so many students, it means that even if a student posed a question at 3 o'clock in the morning, somewhere around the world, there would be somebody who was awake and working on the same problem.

They were only rewarded if they went to the yellow flowers if the yellow flowers were surrounded by the blue, or if the blue flowers were surrounded by the yellow.

The child's daily contact with another human being is reduced to a few hurried minutes of feeding and changing, and otherwise their only stimulation is the ceiling, the walls or the bars of their cots.

Which is a tragedy because there are employers who can use pools of very flexible local people booked completely ad hoc around when that person wants to work.

I am most drawn to my partner when I see him in the studio, when she is onstage, when he is in his element, when she's doing something she's passionate about, when I see him at a party and other people are really drawn to him, when I see her hold court.

I look at this person -- by the way, in desire people rarely talk about it, when we are blended into one, five centimeters from each other.

It was cool, and they just shared the stories about how this affected them and how they used to plant with their mother and their grandmother, and it was just cool to see how this changed them, if it was only for that one moment.

And the paradox is that, because we have this blame game, we have less the potential to convince our citizens that we should work together, while now is the time when we really need to bring our powers together.

(Laughter) RB: So, when I turned 50, somebody took me outside the boardroom and said, "Look Richard, here's a -- let me draw on a diagram.

The room went berserk -- (Laughter) -- as Frank Nelson Cole sat down, having delivered the only talk in the history of mathematics with no words.

Just because you have access to somebody's mobile phone number or their instant message account and it's 2 o'clock in the morning and you happen to be awake, doesn't mean that that's a good time to communicate with those people.

My hair is short like a boy's, and I wear boy's clothes, but I'm a girl, and you know how sometimes you like to wear a pink dress, and sometimes you like to wear your comfy jammies?

So, yes, we need to focus, yes, we need to concentrate, but we also need to remember that innovation, ingenuity, inspiration -- these things come when we broaden our field of vision when we step back when we zoom out.

And Brendan realized after that that he could not protect his men, and that was the only time he cried in Afghanistan, was realizing that.

(Movie montage of "It's 4 a.m.") (Laughter) Rives: So somewhere along the line, I realized I have a hobby I didn't know I wanted, and it is crowdsourced.

Look again at Amel Zenoune's watch, forever frozen, and now please look at your own watch and decide this is the moment that you commit to supporting people like Amel.

Because I remember, being the front-desk specialist, and when I went to the office of equity to start working, I was like, "Is that why they asked us to ask that question?"

(Chomping) (Drum roll) (Toilet flushing) Okay. Next to the pitch region is another set of regions that are selectively responsive when you hear the sounds of speech.

You knew that your family doctor was the father of two teenage boys, that he quit smoking a few years ago, that he says he's a regular churchgoer, but you see him twice a year: once at Easter and once when his mother-in-law comes to town.

We're ready because we've seen, in the financial crisis of 2008, how our fetish for economic growth led us so far astray.

Besides voting, chances are that some time in your life you'll be called upon to participate in your government, whether it is to serve on a jury, testify in court, or petition your Congress person to pass or defeat an idea for a law.

Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone who's always looking down on him and watching over him in his darkest moments -- someone called the Panic Monster.

Now, you might not all be a mess, like some of us, (Laughter) and some of you may have a healthy relationship with deadlines, but remember: the Monkey's sneakiest trick is when the deadlines aren't there.

We know -- quote, unquote -- our team is going to win this weekend, and we only remember that knowledge on the rare occasions when we're right.

It took resilience and perseverance to not quit, but I learned something that I knew before on the one percent day, and that is that you can only be good when you are truly, authentically listening to your own voice and working in alignment with that.

(Applause) What's really cool about this is that young women and men participated in greater numbers than before, because it is time that we close the pay gap.

Or maybe satellite manufacturers need to be charged a deposit to even launch a satellite into orbit, and that deposit would only be returned if the satellite was disposed of properly or if they cleaned up some quota of debris.

There are Jewish and Christian and Muslim and Catholic religious leaders, many of them women, by the way, who have set out to reclaim the heart of our traditions, who firmly believe that now is the time for religion to be part of the solution.

In one of his plays, Alexander Solzhenitsyn depicts a man dying, who says to those gathered around his bed, "The moment when it's terrible to feel regret is when one is dying."

The stories around food are scary and somewhat overwhelming, and I told myself it's time to bring a mindful patience into the impatience.

Well, I came here today to say, as a man that this is wrong, this is toxic, and it has to end.

So it is our job, it is our obligation, it is our duty to speak truth to power, to be the domino, not just when it's difficult -- especially when it's difficult.

Now I believe this is an interesting way of looking at it because in every society, especially an open democratic society, it's only when ideas take root that things change.