A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

Woman is the masterpiece.

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.