The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.

It doesn't matter whether you do small or big Job

The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

People must get respect for their new ideas.

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.