Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Technology is changing the world it's changing our sport. It's changing the way people are following the NBA.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.” “Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.

Remember who you are and what God expects you to become.