Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

Love takes just a moment, it is the ego that takes days, months and years.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

I've never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn't give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth - horses are dumb.