First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.