[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers

You should have hopes. Hopes to nourish the courage that helps get success in life.

Some people are just crazy about something while others are lucky enough to get that.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

She probably had her nose stuck in a book, living in a pretend fantasy world while I was actually out there living in the real fantasy world.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

God made me blind and unable to walk. Big deal!

Life shifting, as life does