It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook.

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Afterlife exist in the unidentified substances.

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.

Even in death, may you be triumphant

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.

I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.