A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous..

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?.

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them..

How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work….

Doctrines are meant to serve man, not the other way around..

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person ….

let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech ….

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascri….

What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural tr….

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them ….

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow..

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrog….

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs..

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived..

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them th….

The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have sever….

Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an e….

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question..

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price..

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have….