Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.