The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

Memories are the only moments when smiling & crying takes place at the same moment.

If somebody wants me to do something I've never done, I can do it more easily because of all of the years of sports I've played.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Everything is always a little surreal.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

I always say that you can't be afraid to ask the question. What's the worst that could happen? The answer could be "no" and you go on.

Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.