I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

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.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Change and Mistakes are positive and negative terminals of cell called "Transformation".

It's called Valentine's Day, you moron. If you're going to date a human, Dankmar, you need to remember their holidays.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.