Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.

Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?

One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

You know, I've always hated those stories about princes and princesses with some extraordinary ability, special because they're born special.' 'Like me?' He smiled wickedly, making me laugh a l

I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that

I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.

I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Love is not weak, feeble or soft. Love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.