In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.

Vladimir Putin hates America, he wants to hurt us. Suddenly Vladimir Putin is a good guy, Russia is okay, no it's not. Russia is evil, Russia is our enemy.

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

Broken hearts don't need medical treatment, they need a lover to mend them.

Freedom is free from fears, choice of faith.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Evil is in antagonism with the entire creation.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.