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

I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

I like to look at the glass half full.

That frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what’s going on.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work – because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.

And no matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ’d, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.

I have to admit I don’t like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.

You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.

I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human helplessness, of human insufficiency, until we will rest no more upon human plans, but have God’s thoughts, God’s voice, and the Holy Spirit to speak to us.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.