My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.

Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.

One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.

Loving a person doesn’t make them who you desire

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.