The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

California is a fine place to live, if you happen to be an orange.

The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.

The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.