I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

Kids' lives are just as important and difficult as grown ups'.

In many cases, the authorities can't really prove if the person is in danger or not, because they can't send a person to Afghanistan to investigate each and every case.

To some education is just a bore

If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?

All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment

Once a relationship is done, it's done. You can't do that back and forth thing.