Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

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.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.