As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.