When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

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

An exceedingly well-informed report, ' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.

The prime purpose of education is to enhance the ability to think better.

Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care.

You must have something in order to give it up.

Do not offer help to those who do not want to help themselves.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.