And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

What we do and say and show really matters.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.