Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

Life lessons cannot be applied topically.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

The moment when you think that you are the loneliest person in the world, you close your eyes and feel, it is much better this way.

If you are born of God then you have the potential to be victorious in all things

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't.

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?