Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

A femme fatale and a warrior princess.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

I like me some of Wayne stuff. I think he's the one exception as far as the auto-tune thing goes.

Just be kind to each other. That's it.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.