Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Healing comes through God's work, and God deals differently with us when we deal differently with him.

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.