I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.

The Egyptians have grown in confidence, theyve tasted freedom, and theres no way back.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones.

How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.