If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.

Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do.

As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose

A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind.

It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

When I die and they come for me bury me a g.