"It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live."

“God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.”

“You cannot fix what you will not face.”

“I think it really came down to two basic things, one, what General Mike Flynn did, and just what he discussed with the Russian ambassador, but, more significantly, how he misled senior officials at the White House, including Vice President Mike Pence, about the nature of those communications.”

“I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can. I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don't worry about my stats.”

“First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.”

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

“I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.”

Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

“The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return”