Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

I could still taste her kiss on my lips as I walked along a deserted Chalk Farm Road at sunrise.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity