It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Peace… starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others.

Refugees cost us money too when they come to us. If we improve their living conditions in Turkey, we create an incentive for them to stay there and not to place their fates in the hands of smugglers.

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women