The places where we went, it was not safe to be any bigger than a two-person crew. In Afghanistan, the only way for us to operate was to try to fly under the radar of everyone.

In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

Crying in the rain. No one sees your tears and your pain gets washed away.

Though a modern woman’s computer is more intimate than her bed...

I didn’t want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

I'd rather live forever in Heaven than a place where there's terrorism and hate.

I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.