Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.