The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

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

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.