Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

If you think it is spiritual to burn food in front of starving people in hopes that your gods will bring this back to you in triplicate, you are missing the point and sowing animosity from all sides.

Courage is essential to leadership.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

Oh, I don't need sleep. I just went to my hotel room and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

Information is bad for knowledge.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.