Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

Our absence is what remains of us.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

There's a reason the Third World came in third.

I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.