Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.