People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. What matters is you can look in the mirror, and love who you see.

Your smile is the gift, all I ever wanted.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.