I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

The real currency of life is not money but love. Real success comes not from earning but from giving.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized past.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?