I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

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.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

One should do nothing other than what is directly or indirectly of benefit to living beings.

I will always love gymnastics.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

A lot of people question how talented I am. But I'm a real dude and I know real things and I've seen real people get their head blown off.