In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

The best ones, are not the perfect ones.

Life is spiritual light.

A culture that does not teach prayer soon runs mad with desire.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Build a little fence of trust Around today Fill the space with loving work And therein stay.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.