“And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.”

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate.

On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

If you can’t find good in your own country, you won’t find it anywhere else.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read:

I am according to my slave’s expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

One doesn’t need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt.

Everything that happened to you is a page that’s been turned and is done with.

Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

You put different combinations in the mix and it becomes something unique in the end.

Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

We all love and become confused when we don’t act as well as we would like to.

We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.

The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.