When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

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

She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me God eternal apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

What I've seen historically is winning is a major aloe. It solves a lot of problems.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.