My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

You can have the most expensive clothes and still lack style

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

I do know how to win.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.