Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.

Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny

We all think we understand love yet we fail to see that no two loves are the same

In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.

History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved.

Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.

The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

I'm a guy who comes from a small town in the Midwest. It's not in my nature to say the most explicit things in public.

I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

I have a pretty normal office day. I get to work at 10 in the morning and leave at eight or nine.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.