The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

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.

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.

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.

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

You should've told me Tess, " I murmured against her hair. "You helped me find my humanness but you took it away with your lies.

You’ll get lost and then you’ll find it.

We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.