People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.

Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.

History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?

It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren’t certain of the outcome.

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.

No one gets something for nothing, we all should know better

The time to lead is now.

It's been so long since I've been okay, I don't know what it feels like anymore.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

If I let you get killed, the other body guards will make fun of me.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.