Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place, underscoring that we are not lords of the universe but components of it...So when the world seems to be falling apart, when we humans seem to be creating messes everywhere we turn, maybe it's time to rejuvenate in the cathedral of the wilderness - and there, away from humanity, rediscover our own humanity.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.