Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.

The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

The Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (Light of Al-Hussein) was created to complement my husband's efforts to advance development in the country.

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.