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

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.

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

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

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Become a maniac on a mission: How to succeed in any venture or business .

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Your mind is greater than your problems, your heart is greater than your troubles, your soul is greater than your temptations, and your God is greater than your obstacles.

There was a military police brigade with over 3, 400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.