When her husband finally unlocks the door, he finds her circling the room, touching the wallpaper, whispering, "I finally got out of here."

Well, the way you are at the prison, you being on the council, you're able to track, you're helping people, but you're still being kind of

I tell kids when they struggle through some uphill and feel like they cannot take it anymore, it really helps to ignore the immediate obstacles and raise your head and look around and see how the vista around you grows.

But also imagine if they were filled with solid bone -- our head would be dead weight, we wouldn't be able to hold it erect, we wouldn't be able to look at the world around us.

When I was born, my mom says I looked around the whole hospital room with a stare that said, "This? I've done this before."

You go to any factory, any power plant, any chemical plant, any food processing plant, you look around -- everything is being run by computers.

The day of the tsunami, he'd actually been in charge of making sure the tsunami gates were closed.

So as I look around at all the evidence and I think about the room that we have ahead of us, I become a huge digital optimist and I start to think that this wonderful statement from the physicist Freeman Dyson is actually not hyperbole.

She scanned all of my classmates, and she said, "You -- you have to get a tutor, otherwise, you won't pass this class."

When I look all around here, I see lots of people who would go an extra mile, run an extra mile to save other people, no matter who they are, no matter what religion, no matter who, where they come from.

And I looked around and I saw this happening all around me, literally hundreds of individuals using a handful of voices, voices that didn't fit their bodies or their personalities.

Someone could give a talk and say, look at us, we've got these really sharp teeth and muscles and a brain that's really good at throwing weapons, and if you look at lots of societies around the world, you'll see very high rates of violence.

So I kept running and I kept running, and I sort of got somewhere and I sort of stood there and looked around me and I thought, well, where do I belong? Where do I fit?

And we looked around and somebody else said, "Well, you should sell supplies to the working buccaneer." (Laughter) And so this is what we did. So it made everybody laugh, and we said, "There's a point to that.

When you look at Muslims around the world -- and I've done this, I've done the largest study ever done on Muslims around the world -- people want ordinary things.

When you go outside today and you look at your built world, ask not only: "What is the environmental footprint?" -- an important question -- but what if we also asked, "What is the human handprint of those who made it?"

If you look at all of the ancient literature -- Ancient Chinese, Icelandic, Greek, Indian and even the original Hebrew Bible -- they all mention very few colors.

I want you to look around the room for a minute and try to find the most paranoid person here -- (Laughter) And then I want you to point at that person for me.

When I look around me, the world seems full of objects -- tables, chairs, rubber hands, people, you lot -- even my own body in the world, I can perceive it as an object from the outside.

And he kind of comically explained that time after time, what the firemen would say is: they would rush to the scene of the crime; they would look around; if there were no dead policemen, it was OK to go.

Right from the age of 15, when I started looking around me, I started seeing hundreds and thousands of women and children who are left in sexual slavery-like practices, but have absolutely no respite, because we don't allow them to come in.

It looks around, searches for the ball... looks around, searches for the ball, and it tries to play a game of soccer autonomously -- artificial intelligence.

But in fact, if you look around the world, not only are there hope spots for where we may be able to fix problems, there have been places where problems have been fixed, where people have come to grips with these issues and begun to turn them around.

I went back to the States and started looking around to see if I could find examples where reverse fishing licenses had been issued, and it turned out there were none.