It is easier for a rich person to act on their principles than it is for someone with fewer choices (which is why it is all the more disappointing when a wealthy person plays to the crowd).

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

The imperfections of religions can only be understood by their unfollowers, not followers.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

[The corporate media] agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy.

Love is not emotion, it's a way of being.

You are what you settle for.

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.