Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it.

Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.

Children see beauty in everything.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.