Democracy is the best revenge.

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.

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

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Use your tears to water the garden of your dreams.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.