Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

What I care about is maximum information.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing, rushing back in to our country.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be Face. I thought, cos I had blond hair and he did too, that when I grew up I'd look like him.

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

Do you really believe in what you said or wrote – in the thing that’s bringing criticism? And if I do believe it, I can withstand anything.

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.