Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody elses skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. – Frederick Buechner
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. – John Boyd Orr
My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. Its not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metals cool, you know? Not everybody on American Idol listens to metal. – James Durbin