That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

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.

The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.

You have to have already convinced yourself that you are going to win no matter what other influences are.

The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.

After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.