God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

May God preserve you and watch over you.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

Do not betray the people.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

We do not have bodies—we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways.

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.