I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

A dreamory is a dream that’s a memory.

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!