There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.

Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.