I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest display of public morality in the world - you know, I mean, before the war happened. Before the war happened, everybody knew that they were being fed lies.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.

The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place.

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.