Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968 I started to think write and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time he creates a separate identity for himself.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology you need art.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

If a teacher does not involve himself his values his commitments in the course of discussion why should the students?

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself prisoner of style prisoner of reputation prisoner of success etc.

God is stronger than their strength more loving than their uttermost love and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others they have obtained the infallible proof that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon and none beyond it?

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life through devotion to something beyond himself.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true and to show himself as he is?

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

When you have a background in combat sports people think you're this martial arts expert but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

He who negates present society and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

The only part of the conduct of any one for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself his independence is of right absolute. Over himself over his own body and mind the individual is sovereign.