Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run for office, that may be the one that comes back and haunts me.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.