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 negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

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 fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

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

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