Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

What makes someone irresistible, is not their looks, but the way they can make your mind tickle, your heart race and your soul smile, all at once.

Who needs sleep when you have a good book?

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.

Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.