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.

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

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.

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

A sage’s mind is greater than a warrior’s sword.

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.