One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

Let go of the pain. But never forget the past lessons.

Mistletoe was her new favorite holiday decoration. She would have to hang some in the kitchen. All over the house. And keep the green stuff hanging until Easter. Or Thanksgiving.

Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.

I think, therefore I am confused.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration