All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.

Smoking will probably kill me, but so will natural selection.

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not.