ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

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.

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

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.

If you can't listen to people, they hardly will follow you.

I would rather write 10, 000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

In the world you live in, one day you will be gone but you must fulfill your mission before departure.

Whoever risks, shall know how far they can reach.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.