We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

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.

In order to avoid shipwreck, wise people usually appoint one captain to navigate the ship.

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.