Alaa Ashraf

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn,
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“بثثْت شكواي، فذابَ الجليدُ ... وأَشفق الصخرُ، ولان الحديدْ
وقلبُك القاسي على حاله ... هيهاتَ! بلْ قَسْوَتُه لي تَزيدْ”
― أحمد شوقي

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring