The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Love cannot reconcile with deception

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

Things rarely go exactly as we expect, but in the long run, they work out well for those who love God. His plan is higher than ours.

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

Above all have respect for yourself.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

Instead of physical objects, (in order to have faith in myself) I have my personal mottos/charms to keep myself motivated and then I smack my chest.