[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.

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.

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.

Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong with them. Everyone is extremely hard to live with.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.