Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.

Interact with others as if you are radiating happiness and healing from within.

Our greatest good and what we least can spare is hope.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell."

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady