Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.

Life is a journey that have a lot different path, but any path u choose use it as your destiny.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.

The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.