In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.

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.

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things

I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

I don't like to go out to clubs, because I find myself seeing remnants of drugs in the bathroom.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

Life bites like a dog.

When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.