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

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 real malady is fear of life, not of death

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and... No thinking is far better then positive thinking

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

To become a leader, you must first become a human being

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

Thoughts without words… Can that be?

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.