The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

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.

If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for.

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Feed the troops on victory.

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.