If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

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.

When I am alone in the forest at night-time and jump from one tree to another, I often think that life is so strange.

Learning through doing.

Hot passion is a bit like infatuation – it burns brightly, but fades quickly.

One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

I would be very proud if, one day, I'm held in the same esteem as George Best or Beckham. It's what I'm working hard towards.

To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating

A lot of people had to die for me to be me.

The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.

It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.