There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Best friends listen to what you don't say.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

You are the artist and the art.

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.