God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

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.

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

The heart is a place of secrets.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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

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.