Never make a decision while in the state of anger.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes

The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.

I was referencing the Bible: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" But I'm not religious. I just thought it was a good title.

And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.