Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.

I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.

He’d valued his dignity more than his own life.

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.