When a man has no reason to trust himself he trusts in luck.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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.