The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

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.

The best teacher is he who kindles the fire of imaginations and does not fill minds with only information.

All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society sees, believes in, and acts in abundance, so will it have wealth and happiness.

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.

Don't let go of the vine.

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Insight must precede application.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.