I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.

I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.