When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.

Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.

Your life is your greatest asset.

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

I am a neighbour king to stretch my branches over him, just as Toghrul sheltered me when I was a weed-stalk next to a strong tree.

It's 2003. Why can't I teleport?

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

Anyone who tries to separate or divorce domestic politics from international politics does not get it, and that might be dangerous for the future of Western Muslims.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.