Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

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.

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.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Every challenge makes us to humble our selves. We learn to know and depend on our Creator.

Emotions are messy.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.

I love that I wrote with all kinds of different people.

I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.

We govern what the public think about.

There's no saving me.

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.