When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

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.

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.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect

Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.

Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.