A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

Do not let your intellect steer you away from what your eyes have seen. Neither should you let it deny what your higher powers have perceived.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

I had a healthy appetite [being pregnant]. I got more healthy as time goes on, and they grew. I never let myself go.

I want them to make peace with the love of God.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.