Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

We still don't understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

You should have some time to think and that's very important.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up.

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.

I see before me the gladiator lie.

Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.