There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

But I couldn’t comprehend this making friends business. My friends had always made me.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Treat a woman how you'd want someone to treat your mom.

There are no other Everglades in the world.

God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.