"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

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.

In my life, I have but one anchor and that anchor is my God. I think if you look closely enough, you can even see it in my eyes, you'll see a strong place, an anchor. That is God.

Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.

What you love the most always finds a way to become your biggest weakness,

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.