We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.