Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

Of course, things always seem more impressive when you're a little kid.

Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.

I wouldn't go back in time to erase you... No. I'd go back just to feel you twice. Then I'd press replay - again and again.

Senior Republicans certainly expected the president to come clean over Miss Lewinsky.

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

You can live and learn, but you cannot learn to live. So just live.

Memory is satisfied desire.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

I'd lost count of the disappointments.