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

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.

Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

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

I’m always the person who’s taking everyone else’s kid and putting them on my hip, so I’ve kinda always been a mama.

A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.

I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”

It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.

I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.