I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.