We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Love cannot reconcile with deception

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

Life demands that we live to care for others instead of living to care for self

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else.

You always wish you made more money but I have had a lot of cool experiences. I have learnt so much by travelling the world and made some great friends in my travels.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

The heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.