Long live jihad and long live Palestine.

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.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo.""Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.