As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation.

That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

All writers steal from their own lives.

How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?