If Twitter, Youtube & Facebook will be honest; if they'll stop being so immoral, stop attacking families, we'll support them

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.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

People are here to serve. We cannot waste potential.

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.