Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of worth.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.

As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

You're grateful and appreciative that people liked you and remember you.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.