I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

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.

In her crazy, upside down world, she needed someone like that. A rock that would keep her going, an anchor to keep her from drifting away. Instead, she was alone.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.