I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.

A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.