In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.

The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.

Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.