The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Our guardian angels love us unconditionally, and they never leave us.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.

Winners take the action that others won't.

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.