President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Everything is within the limit of possibility.

Twists, turns, virgins and bad boys. I love a good YA read. Do you?

Be a reflection of excellence.

Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

Chicken nuggets don't die any easier than baby fur seals.