I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

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.

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

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.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.