Ramadan makes you closer to God.

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.

We are eager to teach our children to go in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6) but sometimes so much unwilling to go that way first.

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

It's about quality, not quantity. It's about the memories, the bond, the love. It's about the heart.

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.