If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Every source of blessing is a point of attack.

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you

It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?

The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.