Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do.

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.