Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Deep down, he's shallow.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.