Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

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

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

I definitely feel there's room for improvement.

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.