A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

‎A change of work is the best rest..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love..

I don't do live things..

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia..

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts….

Nobody understands your life, but you..

It's not the words but the music that counts..

It is poetry that changes everything..

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside..

In business for yourself, but not by yourself..

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.

I am happy being what I am..

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East..