“The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar”

“It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.”

“I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.”

“It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous”

“There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it”

“It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble”

“You can take the Muslim out of the Caliphate, but you can't take the Caliphate out of the Muslim.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”