We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.

Future is an enemy territory

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.