Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had a pretty bizarre, I guess, nomadic childhood, and so I was really drawn to international relations and political science.

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.