[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.

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.

Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory. He was afraid that if it ever began to heal she would disappear.

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.