“Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, 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.

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.

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

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

Becoming rich isn’t as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.