We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.