Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.

I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.