You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

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.

Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive.

I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

In the old days, you'd get credit if you would spend less money and have victory. That would be a good thing.

Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "

Everyone expects me to do certain things.