I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001 just after the war began in Afghanistan, he gave a speech that had two parts to it.

I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

Great wits are to madness near alliedAnd thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.

You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it.