Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

Even touching Erdogan is a form of worship.

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.

You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them