The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

Religion tells you to be sincere to yourself and be sincere to everyone else otherwise you cannot assimilate [attain] religion.

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

I would do this for free as long as you're doing it for free.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

I know I personally get a little rusty when I've jumped back and forth.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle