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

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

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.

The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.

My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.