I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Expect nothing but be ready for everything.

Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success.

There are some people whose turbulent waves of behaviors will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim.

Your brightest light will take you to your greatest heights.

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Was I wearing my 'I'm done with my virginity, please get rid of it for me' T-shirt?

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.