I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up

My mom would still be mad if I didn't say 'please' and 'thank you.'

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

I had some people say to me, you don't - you wouldn't give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.