Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating.

If you're walking the path of the dreamer, everything is possible.

When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know they have something beautiful within them that I do not have.

People are much more interesting than people realise.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.