The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.

We all want to know and be known. That's why doing good is so powerful when the focus is first and foremost the people and not the project.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.