The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.

You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change.

I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.

And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.