I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it.

For there is nothing like travel to heal a broken heart.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.