It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.

What was said before is not important.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

Many Sunnis joined Islamic State because they felt they were being treated poorly. Winning back their trust is the primary task of the new government. That will be difficult, but it is possible.

American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

Sadness is the heart withdrawing to seek shelter from the pain.

We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little--set time, set gestures-- was like a prayer.

With everything there is what to do.

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls