Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'

Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.

God is hidden inside us and everyone is looking for Him.