You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

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

Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid.

It’s complicated. He’s not…' Human? 'He’s playing hard to get.

True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

And how his audit stands who knows, save Heaven?