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

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.

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

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

My life consists of two things, Pain and hardship that no one but me can describe, Love and joy that can only be mesured in who I am

The grace of life is the seed of endless gladness.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

Worship is not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

Thought is your only currency!

I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.

If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.