Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Do not envy any one. Their travel path is different from yours.

Moments like these are fleeting, and we have to grab onto them while we can. From the instant I saw you, I wanted to give you my heart. But today I’ll settle for giving you a flower.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.