I get to be married to the liveliest mind I've ever encountered.... I hit the jackpot.

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.

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

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

Everything we do is practice for something greater than where we currently are.

He gently kissed that scar and felt something changing inside him - just a flutter of change, there and gone, but leaving its mark.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

I just want you to know who I am.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.

I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.