Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again.

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.

You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.

The United States must get a taste of its own poison.

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.

Failure is so much more interesting.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This way, there is only the beauty of the start!

I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.