We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.