Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

There's a world of difference between, "Look at this mess you made!" and "I don't like to see food on the floor!

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.