The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

I would’ve loved to return to me home of Ireland, but Joshua never made the bloody pikes he was flogged for.

I'm falling into disrepair

I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.

I'll always touch you.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.