I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.

Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent.

It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.

The temple of art is built in words.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

Thank God for wisecracks.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.