Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.

If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

The wise man knows he doesn't know.

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

Surviving is much more painful than death.