We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Faith is the leverage we need to liberate us from the shackles of unbelief.

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.