“We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the estab...” — Bashar al-Assad Quote

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.

I am single, and my mother is worried. She wants me to get married. Now that I'm in my 30s, I can't wait for the work-load to slow down. I need to find someone who will accompany me in my professional journey.

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.