I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

The devil doesn't stay where there is music.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.