In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

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

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

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Think it. Write it. Sell it.

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God.

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.