I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.

She ate the stars and swallowed the earth, She is the girl with all the power.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

I get my ideas from listening from within.