I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

The fact is that I loved being in England.