Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

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

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

Too much taking heede is losse. [Too much taking heed is loss.]

It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.