From the Sayings of Salwa

• In this renaissance to which we aspire, we need a cultured, building generation, other than the old generation; and none can give it to the homeland but a woman emancipated, cultured, and generous, who has cast off the shackle of the past and come forward with courage, strength, and competence to prepare the means of awakening and advancement.

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• Every individual — man or woman — who enters upon marriage must know that it is a sacred bond, and a path to a paradise purified of selfish interests, in which hatred, rancor, and egoism melt away, and in which love, fidelity, sacrifice, and selflessness live. If the bond of marriage is honored and surrounded with the respect it deserves, the tower of the family is sheltered from collapse, and the rising generation is preserved from confusion and anxiety, and guarded against the pessimism and delusion that blacken before its sight the fields of struggle; then the paths of noble deeds open out before it, and personalities come forward with their limitless possibilities and their unconquerable energies.

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• In the heart of each of us is a spark of hope with which God has graced us as a blessing, with which we face calamities... so that even when the blow is a thunderbolt, hope lights up in man's imagination to divert him, or to make him forget, or to plant doubt in his heart so that he will not believe what has happened, for a stretch of time that sometimes lasts to the end of life.

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• Often the torrents of misfortune sweep human powers down to the abyss of extinction; the wicked man is only a man whom society neglected, so that he sank into crime and his humanity was lost.