Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because the universe deserves peace.

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course he was a loner; he killed everyone he came in contact with.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.