The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

In the beginning there was only Darkness.

Look through the eyes of your highest self. What do you see?

Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

The true battlefield is within.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

An eldery fallen angel travelling incognito.