Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.

Keep focus on the goal.

...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.