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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Do you believe in Jesus?Jesse looks at me so brown-eyed it hurts.He nods."I do, " he says.I sit up."I think you look like him.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.