Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...

Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven’s glory. Because of Christ’s resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV].

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.

That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear... you become 'one' with the truth.