Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things went bad and change something!

I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.