The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more.

True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils.

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.