The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

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.

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.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

People always give higher priority to newer one, whatever it is.. Relation or thing.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

Most importantly, it´s in giving thanks.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.