When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.

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.

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

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what’s good for all is always its priority.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

To not advance is to retreat.