Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

Encouraging others can be the catalyst to unleashing their greatness.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.