If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

Take care of your people" is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?

Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.

Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

Gratitude is like love or fresh air - you can't get too much of it.

I will be an artist or nothing!

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.