Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

All your strength must come from within, because no external source can provide it.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

Punish the deed, not the breed.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.