Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

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.

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems.

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

Why do they say ghosts are cold? Mine are warm, a breath dampening your cheek, a voice when you thought you were alone.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.