I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with access to minimum clean freshwater.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.