What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law code that would abide by Islamic values and principles, it's understood in many different ways.
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
Iraq is a small but very proud nation.