All Quotes

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities. ”

I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives. ”

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true. ”

The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures. ”

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. ”

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ”

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. ”

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ”

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ”

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ”