I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

I'm a very hopeful person.

I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.

I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in some ways.

A lot will have to happen globally and personally before the stars would align.

I think that I'm a really optimistic person.

I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance.

Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked. "Well, " I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die." "We're not busy, " Annabeth said.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

The wise are wise only because they love.

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.