"I believe in living each day as it comes, to the best of my ability. When it's done, I put it away, remembering that there will be a tomorrow to take it's place. If I have any philosophy, that's it. To me it's not a fatalistic attitude."

“When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.”

“The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.”

Source : Interview with Joanna Rose, www.nobelprize.org. December 09, 2003.

“Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.”

Source : "Cousins Continues to Entertain". Golden Skate Interview, goldenskate.com. December 6, 2003.

“Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.”

“Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth,”

“I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.”

Source : "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'". Interview with Anthony Dias, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

“Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.”

“One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.”