Unity in faith is theocracy unity in politics is fascism.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

I am everything I am today, because of my past.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

Don't tell me words don't matter.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.