Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

She don't only believe in Shoes & cars.... She do believe in Super Star. That's the kind of girl you need bro, the girl that will believe in you & support your career.

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.