Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

I log out of Twitter on my computer so I have to log in and then I log back out.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.