I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

The innate longing within every soul is to awaken from the spirit's slumber and then to journey home.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.