Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

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.

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

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.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

I have seen your darkest nights and brightest days and I want you to knowthat I will be here forever loving you in dusk.

Only bad writers think they're good.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

We are only what we do, not what we say we are.

I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.

I'm a cold winter morning, y'all Summer's Eve.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.