“Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future.”

It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?

The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.

Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking,

Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.

I’m not the type of person that is forced.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. … There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king.

When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.

The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn’t run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.