We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.

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.

Life is politics, you do it or it does you

A great deal of a child’s life is being asked and being told things by adults and not knowing the answers or what to do. So, I didn’t say anything.

...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

This is very much becoming a reality in churches across the country.

He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

There aren't a lot of great parts out there that are interesting for people in my category.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.