There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go.

I have leukemia, and my chemotherapy has destroyed my immune system.

I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.

Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

Mutations are exciting, there aren't nearly enough of them.

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.