English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

You cannot fellowship with God when you disqualify another person from fellowshipping with you

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

I use singing as a warm-up before big scenes I have to do on set. It's also great to make people less nervous.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't wanna take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

I don't think any of us should forget that the security of America is our highest responsibility.

Crying is not an option.

Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.

Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it.