When we confuse the needs with the desires

People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

I'm Little Miss Sunshine, I sprinkle it around.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

You might be a redneck if Santa Claus refuses to let your kids sit in his lap.

I returned to Afghanistan because I had a deep longing to see for myself how people lived, what they thought of their government, how optimistic they were about the future of their homeland.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I became a great runner because if you're a kid in Leeds and your name is Sebastian you've got to become a great runner.

You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.