These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.

I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in the sand in Darfur to show a massacre.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.

I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.