Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.

Measure your life by products and by the results you produce.

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Hate pollutes the mind.

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.