You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.

Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

True inner peace can startle you! Be happy, smile, have fun. But only look for inner peace when you actually need it. After all, it is the fusion of every atoms of reality itself.

Japan surprised almost everyone but Marty with their attack on Pearl Harbor,

With love, when you let it go, life finds the ways and means to grow.

Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.

Our chances are always pretty good

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

I don't have to play football.