"I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that culture. I'm also American and I reflect on what it's like to be an American in the 21st century."

“Survival must come before civilization.”

“While we live, let us live.”

Source : D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.328, Cambridge University Press

“Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.”

Source : "Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations" by M. P. Singh, (p. 96), 2007.

“I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.”

“The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.”

“There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.”

“Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.”

“Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.”