It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.