As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

Tears do not signal your weakness. Tears testify that you are alive.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.