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.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.