I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.

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.

Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?

When we look and feel happy, it’s beautiful and more attractive than anything we could possibly imagine.

Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.

If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up

If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.