If the EU doesn’'t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides don’t need to waste their time with negotiations.

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.

That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the process.

Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.

It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls