Do not seek what you do not wish to find.

Size does matter: Try to surround yourself with people who are blessed with a big heart.

Great people are those who make great effort to achieve innovative ideas against great opposition and great forces, and succeed in the shaping of history.

In the Middle East, optimism is a virtue; realism – a duty.

The world is shaped by those who dare.

We must learn from the past, not relive it time and again.

Whenever man tries to become God, it is a tragedy.

On future tellers: I rather live the present than know the future.

Jealousy is a human trait, cultivated by petty people who will never be what they want to be, or will never have what they want to have.

The hand should not necessarily be the quickest organ in one’s body when one is writing.