Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.
It's not about thinking outside of the box. It's about realizing there is no box.
I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.
I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.