I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

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

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.

Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

I love making people who already hate me hate me more.

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

Stand up for what you know is right.

[Donald] Trump has more of a mandate than any president since Ronald Reagan.

Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.