Hani Qassim

“عبد المجيد طلال ابو عبود. داينمو الحركة الشطرنجية في العراق. لولاه لما كان هناك ناد و لا اتحاد و لا مباريات. و لظل الشطرنج شرقياً محدداً يُلعب كما تلعب الدومينو و الطاولي لقتل الوقت و اللهو و الانصراف الى اللا جدوى.”
― علي اللقماني, ‫مقهى البرلمان - برلمان المقهى: مذكرات ثوّار أدباء العراق‬

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It is common in our day, as it has been in many other periods of the world's history, to suppose that those among us who are wise have seen through all the enthusiasms of earlier times and have become aware that there is nothing left to live for. The men who hold this view are genuinely unhappy, but they are proud of their unhappiness, which they attribute to the nature of the universe and consider to be the only rational attitude for an enlightened man.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“سلاما على من طرق الباب فوجده مغلقا
فعزر وامهل وصبر ورابط وابى الانصراف
ومكث غير بعيد ..”
― عبدالوهاب السيد الرفاعي