We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.

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.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

If you want love, love somebody.

Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.