I do not like violence.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let your fears run you.

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Makes no matter if I'm performing in a grocery store, you're always gonna get 150%.

Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.