The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.

Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap.

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

All the world's roads lead to the heart of the Warrior.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.