I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

Your heart knows there is a greater version of your life available to you.

To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.

I want you to stay. I never want there to be a time when we don't share space.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.

Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren't hitting the bull's-eye.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?