I never rejected any responsibility, but that depends on the decision.

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.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.

You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Hate is a place where a man who can’t stand sadness goes.

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.