“The world needs something from you, my friend. It needs the heart that is deep as the ocean and infinite as the outer-space. Can you provide that my friend! Can you make your will so large and your conscience so sharp that in front of which, a thousand Everests and a thousand Kilimanjaros would bow!”

“Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.”

“I did not know what the future would bring, but I knew that life is not merely about knowledge. It is about the courage and trust that we place in our stories.”

“Reading is a powerful force that illuminates the darkness. Unfortunately, few have the courage to walk against the world in search of knowledge that transforms reality.”

“Call Stella ‘Trash Can Girl’ again and I’ll beat the h— out of you. In fact, call her or anyone else anything ever again and I’ll do the same. I’m done saying nothing. I’m done letting you treat people like crap. Do you hear me?”

“You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.”

“When the brain discourages you with itsargument that courage must be justifiable by strength in the arms, it is the heart which reveals on you, that you are engineeredto do what was beyond you to do when your existence is made a matter of question.Historically, in the face of brute oppression and snatching away of dignity by tyrants, courage does not completely evaporate from the suffering masses. It acquires a hidden butmore potent form, infectious like influenza it can spread to anyone coming into contact with it, but all it needs the one person who sneezes first.”

“هناك من يحتاج الفريق ليصبح قويا، وهناك من يحتاجه الفريق ليصبح قويا. قويا بذاته، وحيادا متميزا محلقا منفردا بين الغيوم. هذا هو الصقر يا بني، لذا اتخذته الشعوب شعاراً لأعلامها و زين دروع القادة”

“We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.”