One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

We still don't understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

Come, Leigh, come with me...

His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.

Hey 'Bachelor, ' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships!

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my life - there was a lot going on, a lot of layers.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.