There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.