To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.

Knowledge increases responsibility.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

How dare you come into my home? And hurt my family? I ought to tear your throat out right here, right now!

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

Words without experience are meaningless.