We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

I believe in a non-killing future.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.

Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.