They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

One can not come back from life.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.