The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

There is no problem that cannot be solved.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.