Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.

The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message.

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

A true philosopher must never give up.

The hidden time is an eternity that runs through every moment. It is all-time. The hidden time is a thread, and moments are the beads on the thread.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

If you look at a person's checkbook and datebook, you know what their religion really is.

My fashion secret is "SIMPLE IS BETTER...LESS IS MORE."

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.