It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?