It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

He was my best friend. I would always love him, and it would never, ever be enough.

I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

Things are only boring if you are boring.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.