I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.

You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

I'm a casual watcher. I like to stream everything.