There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.

Make a list of things you like doing and then do them

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

What hurts the most?Rejection..

Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.