“Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war”

“One cannot live on anger, my son.”

“Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.”

“Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had”

“He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?''We do.' I smiled.He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me. 'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.”

“I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty.”

“Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?”