I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

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.

Life must be lived in speed and focus

If you believe in your sacred self, you can build a strong tower.

Nothing is unbelievable, just expand your vision.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.