I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.

We almost made love with fire, fire in our eyes, fire in our souls, and even in our bones.

The greatest grace shall be harmony in human relations.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.

I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.