It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

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.

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.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.

Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates.

Sometimes we are able to better understand a theory or concept through a story… such stories teach you, enlighten you, and entertain you at the same time.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. "I was testing dorm security," I said. "It sucks.

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.