"It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone."

"Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence."

"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent."

"Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns."

"Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me."

"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

"To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult."

"I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer."