It's okay to feel the need for protection if there is a real external threat. But to feel protective from the inside, it's a kind of jail: you get so protective that you cannot get out of the box.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

I don't like what you're doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.

Develop your intellect and your creative ways of thinking

In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men

WRITE. Take your time and play with the words until you feel you got them RIGHT.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

It's easier to have a go at something again when you failed at it as you've got nowt to lose.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.