I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook.

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

There is no love lost between us.

my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.