A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could.

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!

If I drag it up from the bottom of the river, if I dig deep into that muddy floor and pull it up, even if I get most of it wrong, is it mine to tell?

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.