The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world

And?” I crossed my arms over my chest. I almost tapped my foot waiting for him to answer, but caught myself and held my foot still. That would have been weird—way too much like my mother. ~Milayna

Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some things have changed since the 19th Century.

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.