Peace is more precious than a piece of land..

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution..

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect..

My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabri….

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or….

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people..

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones..

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and i….

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell..

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negot….

Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back….

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed..

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self..

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless..

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people..

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water..

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition..

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality..

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power..

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title..

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace..