Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

It feels good when the one you owe walks with you. It feels ecstatic when the one you don't owe walks.

The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

I think we get the world we deserve. People who love get love back, and people who hate, or fear, they get those back too.

Don't give me timing, give me time

I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces I sing my heart out to the infinite sea I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains I sing my song to the free.

How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?

Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

Blood will have blood.