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

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.

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

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

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Be positive. Now attract every negative person and neutralize them.

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.

People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy.

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.