I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

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.

We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.

Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.